Falcone crime family

The Falcone crime family is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Los Angeles, California and affiliated with the American Mafia. It was founded during the 1920s by Frank Falcone, a Sicilian immigrant who took control of the movie unions and gambling at the Hollywood studios and supplied prostitutes to the West Coast. The Falcones allied themselves with the Corleone crime family and the Molinari crime family, and the Corleones assisted family capo Ignazio Pignatelli with becoming boss by having Falcone killed in an air crash in 1955; when Pignatelli died in 1963, the family was taken over by Frank Romano, who would also meet a violent end in the Atlantic City massacre of 1979.